Tenant Farming in the United States
IT is common to speak of the farmers of the United States as the owners of the land they cultivate, and a large proportion of them are in the position indicated. Of late, however,…
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Farming & the land, 1888
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Important to Pastoral Lessees. Power of Minister to Adjust Rentals. Alison v. Burns
THIS action was brought in the Supreme Court to test the power of the Minister for Lands to fix rents at a higher rate than the appraisement of the local land board. It was argued before the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Steam Farmer
THERE is on view in the Canadian court of the Glasgow International Exhibition an interesting model of a novel agricultural machine, which is known as Romaine's steam…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Woolgoolga and Farming
SIR.—Your issue of the 11th instant contains a letter signed " Traveller," in which certain anomalous facts concerning Woolgoolga are mentioned. "Traveller" (doubtless through lack of…
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AT a meeting of the Dapto Agricultural Society, a discussion took place on the following proposition: "That a protective duty on grain and other farm produce would not promote a good husbandry,…
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AT a conference of 300 delegates from the various branches of the Farmers' Protection Association, last week, to discuss matters affecting the agricultural and pastoral interests, it was resolved to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Victorian Farm Produce
IN speaking to the want of confidence motion in the Victorian Assembly, Mr. WALKES stated that more than £1,000,000 worth of farm produce was annually exported to New South Wales, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Light Railway Trucks. Important to Farmers
A VERY important experiment in the interest of the farming and inland community generally is about to be made on the railways. The Minister for Works has decided, at the request of Mr. Haynes,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Model Dairy. (From our Special Representative.) Melbourne, 12Th September
A LECTURE in connection with the Model Dairy was given on Saturday evening. Owing to the noise of machinery and traffic through the place, little of it could be heard. It dealt with the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Production
THE high local prices for butter ruling this season should direct the attention of farmers and dairymen to the production of the article, to meet at least home requirements. 1s 4d to 1s 6d per Ib. is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Gigantic Pastoral Association
THE prospectas is issued of the Pastoral Finance, Trust and Agency Company of Australasia, limited, with a nominal capital of £2,000,000, to be subscribed in £1 shares. The provisional directory…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →On the Farms
SINCE the rain our farmers have been particularly busy planting the early maize, for which the land waa prepared. Daring the past fortnight a very large area has been planted, and the present sowing will…
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THE Daily News says we have several times called attention to the different kinds of agricultural schools and schools of forestry which have been recently established in…
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THE common idea that "anyone can be a farmer" is just as far away from the truth as if it were claimed that anyone could be an engineer; for to be either requires not only some preliminary…
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THE Manager's report submitted at the monthly meeting of the Board on Tuesday last, showed that the consignments of maize for September amounted to 6530 bags. Notwithstanding the heavy glut,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat-growing
SOME very fair samples of wheat in ear were exhibited at the Flower Show by Mr. A. Eggins, of Southgate. They were grown on Borba, a hill at Southgate, and the Wheat grew on what is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Pastoral and Agricultural Outlook
THE reports from some eighty-four country districts which are published in the Herald form the basis of a very fair general idea as to the condition of agricultural and pastoral affairs in New South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Crop of 1888
THE marketable crop in the United Kingdom is not likely to exceed 6,500,000 quarters, as compared with 9,528,000 quarters last year. Allowing for a consumption of five and a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Insect Pests of Garden and Farm
IN a Technical College lecture by Mr. Angus Mackay, F.C.S., who brought forward the very seasonable subject of "Insect pests of the farm and garden, he said it was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Substitutes for Butter
MANY of the abominable compounds which come under the head of margarine can be made for next to nothing a pound, and the practice of selling such mixtures as genuine…
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